Michelle Obama’s School Lunches In Pictures

[Lucille]

The Planners have made school lunches even less appealing and less healthy. Look at this crap food.

More and more research shows that a diet high in fat and low in carbs is better for you. This is the opposite of what the kids should be served. And even if a parents packs a lunch, it gets thrown in the trash if it doesn't meet the guidelines. Those pictured below don't either: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012.../2012-1010.pdf but I guess that's OK.

http://www.theburningplatform.com/20...l-lunch-worse/

One of the purported successes of Michelle Obama’s tenure as First Lady of the United States has been to help Americans get fit and eat right.

She’s launched a wide array of initiatives targeting Americans receiving government nutritional benefits, as well as school lunch programs across the nation. Nowhere have the First Lady’s efforts been more visible than in the cafeteria’s of America’s schools.

Within days of Obama’s new USDA regulations taking hold parents and schoolchildren launched complaints surrounding the rationing of meals, a move that left kids hungry and school districts frustrated with all of the additional paperwork and program expenses. The USDA subsequently upped the rations to assuage frustration.

But according to America’s kids Michelle Obama has been “out to lunch” when it comes to satisfying hunger. It’s so bad, in fact, that black markets for food have popped up in schools and kids are taking to their social media pages to share their outrage.

Do you want to see what Michelle Obama considers eating right? Check out these pictures and comments – sourced directly from government run cafeterias around the country.

As you see what passes for health food these days keep in mind that school’s are increasingly restricting children from bringing their own lunches from home, often citing nutritional requirements as the reason.

An appetizing ham and cheese tortilla wrap:



Chili cheese dog with a side of veggies:



Can I get another scoop of brown with a sprinkle of yellow? Oh, and don’t forget my biscuit!



Seconds anyone?


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When mom joined her daughter for lunch, here’s the wonderful meal prepared by the caring cafeteria staff:



On the flip side, here is what Michelle Obama’s children enjoy for lunch at the Sidwell Friends school attended by her daughters Sasha and Malia. In this particular case the school was paying a tribute to Pearl Harbor Day and the kids feasted on Asian Mushroom Soup, Oriental Noodle Salad, Teriyaki Marinated Chicken Strips, Garlic Roasted Edamame, Vegetable Fried Rice and Fortune Cookies for dessert:

[FindLiberty]

the last picture looked OK to eat....

Hmmmm.

[Tod]

Well, hey.....the guy in the first pic was not fat. What's the complaint?


They pay tribute to Pearl Harbor by eating Japanese food? That's curious.

[Lucille]

the last picture looked OK to eat....

Hmmmm.

That's the type of food the Obama princesses get to eat for lunch.

[specsaregood]

They pay tribute to Pearl Harbor by eating Japanese food? That's curious.

Yeah, that seems like a strange choice to me.

[dannno]

Yeah, that seems like a strange choice to me.

lol seriously..

On the flip side, here is what Michelle Obama’s children enjoy for lunch at the Sidwell Friends school attended by her daughters Sasha and Malia. In this particular case the school was paying a tribute to Pearl Harbor Day and the kids feasted on Asian Mushroom Soup, Oriental Noodle Salad, Teriyaki Marinated Chicken Strips, Garlic Roasted Edamame, Vegetable Fried Rice and Fortune Cookies for dessert:

[GunnyFreedom]

They pay tribute to Pearl Harbor by eating Japanese food? That's curious.

Yeah, that seems like a strange choice to me.

It almost seems intentional. A special school for the leaders of our country, eroding fundamental allegiances to our country.

[GunnyFreedom]

lol seriously..

If they were honoring Hawaii, it is a whole other menu. Probably involving SPAM in some way. I can't imagine how or why, but a slab of SPAM on a block of rice and wrapped in seaweed.....just works somehow.

[tod evans]

And just how many tax-ticks did it take to develop this fine cuisine?

How many more to enforce the mandates?

At what cost to the folks who actually pay for it?

[squarepusher]

[specsaregood]

It almost seems intentional. A special school for the leaders of our country, eroding fundamental allegiances to our country.

fwiw:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...0IaO_blog.html

A school rep told us this was just a fluke — not a meal intended to commemorate the 1941 Japanese attack on U.S. forces: The contractor that prepares school lunches randomly assigned an Asian menu to Dec. 7, and the subcontractor that prints the calendars automatically marked Wednesday at Pearl Harbor Day. “It was completely coincidental,” said Ellis Turner, associate head of the school

[Danke]

ATLANTA (CBS Atlanta/AP) — Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron compared Republicans that oppose President Barack Obama to the Ku Klux Klan.

http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/04/...-obama-to-kkk/

[Occam's Banana]

Michelle Obama Must Be Outraged ...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/...t-be-outraged/
Thomas DiLorenzo (11 April 2014)

. . . at all the carbs and sugary donuts on display in this Washingtonian magazine photo of the kitchen in the home of White House press secretary Jay Carney. The First Nanny may well have Carney fired for this. The Soviet propaganda posters adorning the walls, on the other hand, are probably quite common among the Obammunists.

[Weston White]

Students across the nation should start a campaign where they certify mail their entire school provided lunch (e.g., at least one per week) along with a letter of complaint to her at the White House and make a record of their mailing on a dedicated Website (so it can be publicly tallied).

That would be outstanding.

[roho76]

These kids are white, republican, racists.

[Lucille]

National School Lunch Program Embarrassment Continues
The USDA has managed to make school lunches stink even more. So why does the government continue?
http://reason.com/archives/2014/04/1...ram-outrage-co

Last month I noted that a GAO report had found that last school year's disastrous rollout of the updated USDA National School Lunch Program helped drive 1.6 million paying students from the lunch rolls. The new rules led some schools to abandon the program, as I reported in 2012. What's more, the new rules, championed by First Lady Michelle Obama, have also resulted in unprecedented mountains of food waste.

As I also noted last month, the federal government has decided that these abject failures are evidence of a need to double down on the school lunch program. Why scrap a failing program when you can expand it instead?
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These problems with the National School Lunch Program have been so bad that even the mainstream media has been forced to take note.

The Los Angeles Times blasted the National School Lunch Program earlier this week in a pointed editorial.

"The program, pushed by the Obama administration and passed by Congress, is afflicted by rigid, overreaching regulations that defy common sense," wrote the Times editors.

"[F]ruits and vegetables rank as the least popular items, so requiring schools to offer one of each for each student practically guarantees that an enormous amount of fruits and vegetables will go to waste.

"Even worse are the rules about what kinds of produce must be offered and in what form," writes the Times. "They make it nearly impossible, for example, to hide the vegetables in soups or lasagna, where they might be more palatable to students."

YHGTBKM

[Anti Federalist]

What's everybody bitching about?

It looks just like what it is:

Prison food...

[Anti Federalist]

fwiw:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...0IaO_blog.html

A school rep told us this was just a fluke — not a meal intended to commemorate the 1941 Japanese attack on U.S. forces: The contractor that prepares school lunches randomly assigned an Asian menu to Dec. 7, and the subcontractor that prints the calendars automatically marked Wednesday at Pearl Harbor Day. “It was completely coincidental,” said Ellis Turner, associate head of the school

Rigggghhhhhhhtttttt...

[brushfire]

food deserts...

[Anti Federalist]

LOL - and the almost required "back in my day" anecdote.

Back in my day kids swarmed out of school at lunchtime and some went home, where, whoa, mom was waiting with lunch, or we went and got a slice of pizza or a burger or sandwich at a local deli.

My home town actually still had a malt shop with great burgers.

Older teenage kids sometimes finished up with a smoke.

The horror...

[Anti Federalist]

food deserts...

Let them eat cake.

[Suzanimal]

What's everybody bitching about?

It looks just like what it is:

Prison food...

I've never had prison food but I've had jail food and it was pretty good. I spent 2 nights and one day and I had sausage biscuit for breakfast and PB&J (grape jelly) for lunch and dinner. I would definitely choose jail food over any of that garbage.

[moostraks]

Social services in some states would be all over parents if they fed "meals" that resembled anything close to these. To spend money on having the state feed your children like this is insane.

[I<3Liberty]

This is somewhat misleading. My brother is in high school and his lunch menu looks nothing like the lunches in these pictures. He's required to have a fruit and a veggies side dish with each lunch and some of the lunches aren't that bad. They have like 15 different entrees to pick from (including things like subs and chicken with rice) and have the option of packing a lunch. It might be different at other schools though.

Back when I went to high school (pre-Michelle Obama lunches) the student gov pushed for an open lunch policy so people could either go home to eat or go to the grocery store cafe and other eateries that were right next to the school. It didn't pass and likely because the school knew an open lunch policy would put the cafeteria and snack shack out of business. A bunch of kids started bringing in food from home and would host mini potlucks. Others would give their senior friends money to sign out (which you could do once you turned 18) and buy Subway. It was funny watching them find ways around the lunch rules.